But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

The patriotic society of the commune was one of the first 21 created in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in spring 1792, by the envoys of the departmental administration.

The first SEZ should come into being in 2012 in N ' Sele, a commune of Kinshasa, and will focus on agro-industries.

Rapp was able to secure a large tract of land in Pennsylvania and started his first commune, known as Harmonie or Harmony, in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where the Society existed from 1804 to 1815.

They first settled and built the town of Harmony, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and established the Harmony Society in 1805 as a religious commune.

One member of this commune was Josiah Warren ( 1798 – 1874 ), considered to be the first individualist anarchist.

While admitting that Russia's rural " commune is the fulcrum of social regeneration in Russia ", Marx also warned that, in order for the mir to operate as a means for moving straight to the socialist stage without a preceding capitalist stage, it " would first be necessary to eliminate the deleterious influences which are assailing it ( the rural commune ) from all sides.

The first of these was Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ), a Swedish scientist who after a religious experience devoted himself to Christian mysticism, believing that he could travel to Heaven and Hell and commune with angels, demons and spirits, and who published widely on the subject of his experiences.

* Confronted with internal strife, the commune of Bologna is the first Italian republic to turn to the rule of a podestà, Guido di Ranieri da Sasso ( ends in 1155 ).

During Otto's reign, a commune and the consul magistrates are mentioned for the first time ( 1095 ) and make this City-State the first republic of Europe.

The Agnus Dei is chanted while the clergy and assistants first commune followed by lay communicants.

When first created, the commune of Saintes was assigned as the prefecture of the department ( Saintes had previously been the capital of Saintonge ).

Later iterations of the plan moved the commune to Wales, but Southey was later the first of the group to reject the idea as unworkable.

Reiser lived together with the band and a large group of friends and supporters most of that time, first sharing a commune in Berlin.

In 1958, Yashan in Suiping County, Henan, became the first people's commune of China, heralding the beginning of the " Great Leap Forward ".

However, when Reiner Hermann was forced to resign in 1994, shortly after the new system was adopted, Hemer became the first commune of North Rhine-Westphalia to get a professional mayor in 1995.

The name derives from the Abri de Cro-Magnon ( French: rock shelter of Cro-Magnon, the big cave in Occitan ) near the commune of Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in southwestern France, where the first specimen was found.

During the 2008 municipal elections, Manuel Valls was returned to office as mayor on the first round with 70. 3 % of the vote which gave him the highest national score for a first round ballot, making Evry the safest Socialist commune in France.

Lucca was in fact the first commune in Italy ; the other most important ones were Arezzo, Florence, Siena and Pisa, often struggling between each other.

He turns to other forms of communication: first, he tries to find a way to commune with animals, who can sense subtle, non-verbal emotions ; at the same time, he attempts to write an opera about the poet Lord Byron, told from the perspective of Byron's mistress Teresa.

The following century Ivrea became a free commune, but succumbed in the first decades of the 13th century.

Cambodia's first commune elections were held in February 2002.